Definition of Pulmonary

1. Adjective. Relating to or affecting the lungs. "Pulmonary disease"

Exact synonyms: Pneumonic, Pulmonic
Partainyms: Lung, Lung, Lung

Definition of Pulmonary

1. a. Of or pertaining to the lungs; affecting the lungs; pulmonic.

2. n. Lungwort.

Definition of Pulmonary

1. Adjective. Pertaining to, having, or affecting the lungs. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Pulmonary

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pulmonary

pullulated
pullulates
pullulating
pullulation
pullulations
pullup
pullups
pully
pulmo
pulmocutaneous
pulmograde
pulmometer
pulmometers
pulmonaria
pulmonarias
pulmonary (current term)
pulmonary alveolus
pulmonary anthrax
pulmonary arteries
pulmonary artery
pulmonary circulation
pulmonary congestion
pulmonary edema
pulmonary embolism
pulmonary embolisms
pulmonary emphysema
pulmonary function test
pulmonary oedema
pulmonary pleura
pulmonary plexis

Literary usage of Pulmonary

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Text-book of Physiology for Medical Students and Physicians by William Henry Howell (1911)
"consists in the fact that the peripheral resistance is evidently much less in the pulmonary circuit, and consequently the pressure in the pulmonary arteries ..."

2. A Text-book of Physiology for Medical Students and Physicians by William Henry Howell (1911)
"consists in the fact that the peripheral resistance is evidently much less jri the pulmonary circuit^and consequently the pressure in the pulmonary arteries ..."

3. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1901)
"In the description of the arteries we shall first consider the efferent trunk of the pulmonic circulation, the pulmonary artery, and then the efferent trunk ..."

4. Journal of the American Medical Association by American Medical Association (1890)
"In the cat one-fiftieth of a grain produced a temporary great fall of the carotid, with a slight rise of the pulmonary pressure. When, however, the carotid ..."

5. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1907)
"Free pulmonary Hemorrhage in Mitral Stenosis and Extensive Sclerosis of the pulmonary Arteries.—G. SCHWARZ (Munch, med. Woch., 1907, liv, 615) reports the ..."

6. A Treatise on human physiology: Designed for the Use of Students and by John Call Dalton (1871)
"That portion of the pulmonary trunk (4) which is beyond the origin of the pulmonary branches, and which communicates freely with the aorta, is the Ductus ..."

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